"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

L'Art Catalogue Index offre un inventaire le plus exhaustif possible des catalogues raisonnés et catalogues critiques des artistes nés entre 1240 et la fin du xx e siècle sur la peinture, la sculpture, les œuvres sur papier, la gravure et les media contemporains.0Cet ouvrage concis, au design intelligible, présente les catalogues en ordre alphabétique d'artistes puis d'auteurs, permettant ainsi un accès rapide à l'information. La section ± catalogues raisonnés ?, à laquelle un œil critique a été apporté par les auteurs quant à leur validité scientifique, est complétée par une rubrique ± catalogue ? qui inclut également les inventaires, ouvrages non exhaustifs mais nécessaires à la recherche.0L'Art Catalogue Index a pour ambition de devenir un outil indispensable aux conservateurs de musée, historiens d'art, critiques d'art, bibliothécaires, libraires, étudiants, collectionneurs, experts, commissaires-priseurs, galeristes ou marchands.0Réunis tous deux dans un coffret, ils forment un ouvrage qui donne un panorama complet des publications exhaustives sur les artistes de tous temps.00Vol.1: ISBN 9782362220340 (Paris: Mare & Martin, 2020)00Vol.2: ISBN 9782362220357 (Paris: Mare & Martin, 2020)00.

The insightful, gorgeously illustrated first volume of the most important publication to date on Ellsworth Kelly’s work Written by Ellsworth Kelly scholar Yve-Alain Bois in direct collaboration with the artist, this comprehensive multivolume publication contains exhaustive documentation of each of Kelly's paintings, sculptures, and reliefs. The catalogue includes insightful texts and high-quality images of individual works and preparatory drawings, along with provenance information, exhibition history, and bibliographic information. Encompassing Kelly's work up to his return to the United States from France in 1954, the present volume covers the artist's formative years as a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a young artist living in Paris, where he began painting the abstract forms which would later define his career. Kelly’s remarkable pace of production during this early period resulted in an especially diverse oeuvre, which is discussed in depth throughout this publication. In Bois’s words, “This diversity is the main reason many of the works examined in this volume are discussed at such length and in such detail: In almost every case, the particular question the artist was addressing, and the formal solution he devised for it, was entirely novel to him.”